Raj Subramaniam
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Raj Subramaniam reads as The Operator because his authority rests on execution rather than spectacle. As FedEx chief executive he presides over a business where reliability is the product itself, and his conversation on The David Rubenstein Show carried that same register, measured, systems minded, attentive to how things actually get done.
“Some of the investors are frustrated about lack of generation of free cash flow, for example. But you have to have investments in capital to get the network that we have built so far.”
“I think the market itself is growing, and I think I feel like our industry, what we do as an industry, is pretty significant and somewhat underappreciated actually, because it's been taken for granted.”
“Well, first of all, you have to imagine a world where there was no Google or information was, let's say, much scarcer. So there was a well-worn path. You go in India, you get into the Indian Institute of Technology, very competitive school. And once you're through that, there is usually a path to get a scholarship to come to America.”
“Letters are very, very small piece of the business, and I think you send some letters, so thank you about that. But if you open up our airplanes and look at them, if you can imagine we can fill it up with letters, that's a lot of letters. So it's actually, you know, we move the high value economy of the world.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Raj Subramaniam”
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